Ø Does the archive database has a separate dumpster with a separate retention ? Remember in my presentation, I talked about the dumpster v2.0 and the purposes of the “Deletions”, “Versions”, and “Purges” subfolders. Note that these will be used only if you activate the “Single Item Recovery” or the “Litigation Hold” feature on...

 Authors : Levon Kohoutek (for the question) and Nagesh Mahadev (for the answer)Question :Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 - Server 2008 SP2 environment. Quite frequently we’re receiving ExchangeIS Event 9786’s potentially followed by ESE Event ID: 623 “The version store for this instance (x) has reached its maximum size of xxxMb.” errors. At this point we’re...

 Bookmark to Rhoderick’s blog :http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2012/07/05/how-to-fix-log-parser-log-row-too-long.aspxNote : The maximum value is *not* 0xFFFFFFFF.  It’s actually 0x00785111 (hard coded in the LogParser code)To determine the value to put on the below registry key, take the performance log file that you have in CSV format (works only on CSV formats), copy the headers only, and paste it in...

 To avoid DAG switchover issues, you should always collapse the MAPI networks in a DAG.The following Technet article state that we “should” or we “must” do it:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298065.aspx#Dathttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638104.aspx#NR … and Tim McMichael explains why :http://blogs.technet.com/b/timmcmic/archive/2011/09/26/exchange-2010-collapsing-dag-networks.aspx

  get-service *Exchange* | ? {-not ($_.name -like "*IMAP4*") -and -not ($_.name -like "*POP*")} Notes:“?” is the alias for “Where-Object”CommandType     Name                                                Definition -----------     ----                                                ---------- Alias           ?                                                   Where-Object

 I- Onsite Organization Plan (Pull data from MS Project or Excel) Project Project Title Tasks Task description 1 Environment Assessment 1.1 ADTD run and analysis     1.2 DAG configuration deep dive     1.3 DAG configuration analysis and advices to fall into the best practices 2 Project number 2 2.1 Task number 1 of...

  1) Just create a text file and put in the following from: blabla@domain.com to: Recipient@domain.com subject: pick up folder test This is the body 2)Then save the file as EML file extension 3)stop the transport sevrice 4)copy and paste the file to the pickup folder If you hold contol-v it will paste it constantly, then...

    - The prerequisite step is to create a “Test” OU - Then the first step is to create a CSV file using Excel containing 2000 test user names and a minimum set of attributes for these users (Display Name, sAMAccountName, UserPrincipalName, First Name, Last Name). Easy with the “fill series function” of Excel...

 Udated 10/12/2014 – Ryan Witschger blog address – the most useful and clear article so far in my opinion explaining how to do the best multithreading tasks, using Jobs and using .Net Multi-Threading in PowerShell V2 Using Jobs:           http://www.get-blog.com/?p=22 Using .NET multithreading           http://www.get-blog.com/?p=189  Microsoft documentation about Jobshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878288%28VS.85%29.aspxPowerShell internals and PowerShell threading (using .NET)http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/261193/ps  The [RunspaceFactory] and...

 Exchange Server and Update Rollups Build Numbers (en-US)http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/240.exchange-server-and-update-rollups-build-numbers-en-us.aspxGreat Barghav, thanks ! *New* Specific to Exchange 2013 and its Cumulative Updates:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15776.exchange-server-2013-and-cumulative-updates-cus-build-numbers.aspx   Other links :Exchange Server Build Numbers and Release Dates up to Exchange 2010 SP1 RU1http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh135098.aspx   Sam